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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Asia Soo's mother from?
(a) Japan.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) France.

2. How many children does the narrator describe the General having in Chapter 1?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

3. What word in the novel refers to the practice of concealing a message within another message?
(a) Patriarchy.
(b) Steganography.
(c) Stenography.
(d) Lithography.

4. What does the narrator brush over the letters from his aunt in order to see the hidden messages in Chapter 4?
(a) Salt water.
(b) Milk.
(c) Sugar water.
(d) Iodine.

5. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Karl Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author is cited in the narrative as saying "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"?

2. Of what ethnicity is James Yoon described in Chapter 10?

3. What is described as "the cue for the evacuation's final phase" in Chapter 5?

4. What is the name of the film that the narrator is to advise about?

5. What author does the narrator say that Man had introduced him and Bon to in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Claude? How does the narrator know this character?

2. Who is Bon and what is his relationship to the narrator?

3. How does the narrator become injured in Chapter 11?

4. Whom does the narrator become entranced by at the wedding in Chapter 7? Why?

5. How does the narrator become involved in the production of the film The Hamlet?

6. What are the narrator's criticisms of the script for The Hamlet?

7. How is the theme of duality introduced in Chapter 1?

8. How does the narrator describe "breaking" the Watchman in Chapter 11?

9. How would you describe the narrative style of The Sympathizer?

10. What is the narrator's relationship to the General?

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